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by mjibson 9y ago
Yes, CockroachDB excels at strong consistency at mid-low workload volumes. There are already some production deployments doing this kind of work.
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by mjibson 9y ago
I've seen these kinds of things and have always been dubious that they are able to pay a full time salary for someone that is even close to what they could make with a normal full time dev job. What's the highest monthly amount yo
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by mjibson 9y ago
As described by the other commentator, this isn't quite the same. My normal workflow is 2 command line windows and ~3-4 open files. Doing this in tmux while trying to maintain the ability to move and split windows at will means that&#x
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by mjibson 9y ago
I switched from vi to acme a few years ago after watching this video, and I'm still happy with my choice. It took me a while to figure acme out, but it has some killer features like: - files and command line sessions are both just wind
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Survey of Rounding Implementations in Go(cockroachlabs.com)
5 points by mjibson 9y ago|0 comments
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by mjibson 9y ago
I think the people who make and use Go have had a different experience than you, and judge a language to be suited to production with different criteria. Simplicity, great concurrency (that is, way better than most others even if not the be
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by mjibson 9y ago
This doesn't take into account when clocks on different systems run at different speeds, or when clocks jump, especially on VMs and cloud instances, which happens all the time.
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by mjibson 9y ago
The blog and other non-docs pages use hugo ( http://gohugo.io/ ) and the docs use jekyll, but will be ported to hugo soon. We use github pages for hosting with cloudflare in front (for https on a custom domain).
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by mjibson 9y ago
Off topic but: this is some good nostalgia here. I was that other coworker. Some of the best pair programming I've ever done. It was fun working closely with Nick.
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by mjibson 9y ago
> Although drivers, especially libpq (no pipelining, no mixed binary/text results), are more frequently an issue. The Go lib/pq driver is some pretty old Go code and has numerous similar problems. We try to keep it moving along
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by mjibson 9y ago
I work at CockroachDB on the implementation of the Postgres protocol, and I'm a maintainer of lib/pq, a Go client implementation of the protocol. Overall I think it is a very good protocol. I can't come up with any gripes I h
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by mjibson 10y ago
I can name a handful of role models in the computing field that were important for my development: Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood, Patrick McKenzie, Dan Luu, Steve Yegge. However not until about 2 years ago was there a single women I could think
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by mjibson 10y ago
> Does anyone here really have any role models that were influential to their interest in the field? Rob's entire piece is about how a group of women in a highly technical field were influenced by role models. And we're still d
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by mjibson 10y ago
Yes, Azure blobs will be supported. (I'm a dev here and just finished that feature.)
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by mjibson 10y ago
I did not count my own time, no. If I did I'd almost certainly be below profitable. But I was doing it at the time because I wanted a google reader replacement, not to make money. I only started charging because I had so many users (at
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by mjibson 10y ago
In 2015 I paid app engine about $1700 or ~$130/month or a bit over $4/day. I could probably get that down another dollar or so a day if I did some optimization and cleanup work, but I haven't cared.
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by mjibson 10y ago
I run https://www.goread.io/ which is a subscription-based RSS reader. It's open source and runs on google app engine. It costs ~$2k per year to run and I make between $2k and $3k profit per year for nearly zero effort
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by mjibson 10y ago
Too bad they didn't name it something non-controversial like cockroach.
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by mjibson 10y ago
That's the first link under the link to the SQL:2011 section about this, so it's not too difficult to get to there.
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by mjibson 10y ago
Blog post OP here. I originally wrote that I wasn't aware of any other DB that had this. I should have specified any other SQL DB, since I was aware of Datomic. While working on this feature I searched on Google for the syntax specifie
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by mjibson 10y ago
Nah, was just me (the engineer) not being aware of Oracle and MSSQL. I should have written than I'm not aware of any other SQL DB. I was aware of Datomic, but it's not SQL. Just an error.
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by mjibson 10y ago
Ah, I didn't know that. It looks like you have to enable those explicitly. CockroachDB built time travel over it's existing MVCC layer, which means it works out of the box for all tables.
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by mjibson 10y ago
I think CockroachDB is making genuine progress in the distributed, consistent space. We now have to add many of the existing features on top of that.
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by mjibson 10y ago
I searched for the syntax listed in the standard and didn't find it in production use anywhere else. I've used MSSQL in production before (last time in 2015) but never Oracle. I'm happy to now know that other SQL DBs have thi
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by mjibson 10y ago
Blog post OP here. No, we are not the first SQL vendor to provide this. And many other non-SQL databases also have this feature. Performance is faster than other reads, in general, because of less risk of transaction retries. Columns can co
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by mjibson 10y ago
Joins are coming, although they will take some time.
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by mjibson 10y ago
I'm attempting to even imagine how one would build a useful way to test this. Would they have to have a secondary, world-wide datacenter network with all their various services behind it?
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by mjibson 11y ago
Debian on desktop. Ubuntu on laptop (a macbook pro) because Ubuntu supports the wifi card and Debian doesn't (out of the box, at least). I'd prefer Debian because it starts with less, but working at all is more important.
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Implementing moggio: a cross-platform, multi-source music player in Go(mattjibson.com)
4 points by mjibson 11y ago|0 comments
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by mjibson 11y ago
I agree. I was under the impression that Apple's security was such that even they didn't have the power to decrypt a device because the crypto made it impossible without the password/pin/key. I'm interested to under

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